encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge … of its employees (and their competences) as a potential opportunity and asset to perform creatively in knowledge … production and knowledge application. The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education …

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful … commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing … incumbents' innovative performance, the systematic reduction of knowledge filter through improved absorptive capacities thus …